Eastern cape blue cycad: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Eastern cape blue cycad in South Africa is the name of a plant defined with Encephalartos horridus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Zamia horrida Jacquin), (the specific name from the Latin horridus, a, um (horreo) ‘bristly, horrible’, the plant has a spiny appearance.
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Novarum et Minus Cognitarum Stirpium Pugillus (1834)
· Species Plantarum
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